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Mount Rainier, where Everest Climber Jim Whittaker took the members of his 1975 K-2 expedition for some pre-Himalayan conditioning. They can also try their skills on Yosemite's Rixon's pinnacle, a rock spire where an urban alpinist named George Willig developed the confidence that enabled him to conquer Manhattan's World Trade Center. Would-be birdmen can launch their hang gliders from Yosemite's Glacier Point for a 3,500-ft. descent to the park floor. Fishermen can cast their flies -and hopes-after the three-pound rainbow and cutthroat trout that make...
...involved in the controversy agree that the original plan would require the destruction of at least four weeping cherry trees and two Himalayan cedars...
...nature lover and retired research director of Keep America Beautiful, had just missed her limousine to Wilton, Conn., where she was meeting a friend with whom she was about to embark on a trip around the world. They were looking forward eagerly to taking an elephant-ride in the Himalayan Mountains. Resigned to a wait, Miss Bull bought a limousine ticket from Edgar Cooper, 38, who was also there by chance. Normally, Cooper worked at a booth in the American Airlines section, but he was filling in here...
...track down the insects. For a while, the campaign to combat malaria was spectacularly successful. "If you just wrote DDT on the wall, mosquitoes used to die," says Dr. M.I.D. Sharma, commissioner of India's rural health services. The disease that once made vast stretches of the Himalayan foothills practically uninhabitable almost disappeared from many communities. Formerly infested areas were opened to development, and governments began to phase out the spraying programs, diverting resources to seemingly more pressing health problems. "We became complacent," acknowledges Indian Health Minister Karan Singh. "We thought we had it licked...
...nation's stores to part with their money? For some answers, store managers across the country increasingly are studying the phenomenal success of Federated Department Stores and especially its crown jewel, Bloomingdale's. Not every store, of course, can emulate Bloomingdale's specific techniques: ice cream made from Himalayan mangoes might not sell as well in the suburbs of Spokane as it does on Manhattan's East Side?especially not at $1.75 a pint. But any store can follow Bloomingdale's essential formula: first, know your customer, his age, affluence, customs, habits, tastes. Then set out to woo him with...